Bayonetta? 2B? Widowmaker or Tracer from overwatch? Lady D? Any anime girl from any recent, popular show?
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TLOU2 is extra funny because players got not one but two impossible female characters: 1) a petite skinny un-muscled teenage girl who would never physically overpower a fit 200lbs man, and 2) a woman with the build of a fit 200lbs man in an apocalypse.
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And that's even more funny because they knew this in the first game, and centered an entire giant chapter around how Ellie is basically powerless against just a basic bandit and has to rely on surprise to violent knife them like 8 times before they can respond. Her entire boss fight is probably one of the best "how it feels to be a woman" simulators, because you are just fighting a regular old man and its completely terrifying how much he can destroy you if he happens to notice you.
There have been many reality tv shows over the years that have had women competing against men, either "indirectly" to accomplish the same task or more directly against each other in a fight. I'm not 100% sure what show it was, might have been one of the SAS ones, but one part had a woman competitor spar with a man.
She took something like 1 hit from the guy and the match was halted, by another guy refereeing, because she was going to get wrecked otherwise. Pretty sure the guy she was fighting was still holding his punches too, more so than expected for "just a sparring match".
/v/ is a den of people attempting to bait and troll each other until there is no actual conversation. That's why half of the threads are started with "x-sisters....."
Its completely distinguishable because reddit and resetera are all open about it, whereas /v/ is under so many layers of bait and irony its even more worthless.
It's a bunch of 2005 era le epic trolls who never grew up. It's trolls trolling trolls. Very pathetic.
Yeah, that's why you shouldn't take a single word they say seriously. The OP post is a dime a dozen on it, and its said entirely as bait to try and get people and derail entire threads.
Aight you convinced me. :)
discord trannies constantly raid /v/. Still it's hard to distinguish a troon and contrarian in that shithole.
Wait, that's who that is? Guess it proves she's not the gaming icon they think she is.
I forgot that I play video games to watch a TV show.
At this stage most Sony games are already TV shows with occasional gameplay and quicktimer events.
I memba when games used to have cut-scenes, rather than the cut-scenes having bits of game.
Actual characters with a story? Off the top of my head :
Singularity, Evie, The Imagined, Marigold,
Brie Larson.Most popular skins are probably Ruby, Aura and Brite Bomber.
Is that supposed to be Ellie? Because if it is, last I checked, she's a murderous villain who murders peaceful
post-apocalyptic terroristspregnant women, dogs, and other 100% good people all to avenge an evil toxic white man who doomed humanity to extinction by simply being a loving father, abandoning her angelic Jewish lesbian girlfriend in the process. In a sense, she's a toxic man with boobs (nearly nonexistent ones, but I digress). She is the bad guy of the story and not the one we are meant to root for. That sexy feminine chunk of hulked-out womanmeat who like to take it up the ass, Abby, is the hero of the story, and the one the writers expected us to root for. Funny how despite their best efforts, she's still not beloved or iconic, even by TLoU's own fans, who still prop Ellie up as their symbol for all that is meant to be good in a woman.I guess the Western gaming industry wants a repeat of the comics industry. Although this time it'll be Chinese games instead of Japanese Manga.
Big boobs, no blacks.
Chinese developers know their customers.
Paying Japanese artists to draw the characters and Japanese VAs to voice them is also key.
She's the most astroturfed female game character.
Who are they trying to claim is 'the most iconic female character in the last 10 years', the picture? She looks generic as fuck.
We can't use anime as that changes PER SEASON, last year alone we had Marin Kitagawa, Yor Forger and Chisato Nishikigi and they ALL had personality!
Gaming, it's telling that the most successful games of the past decade had a focus on interesting personality not just physical beauty. We had guys simping for the maidens out of Elder Rings to prove that. When I think of early 2000s and 'sexy women in games', at a time when graphics were NO WHERE near as good as they are now, I think most stuff was like Ashelin out of the Jak and Daxter games where you had a hot chick wearing not much but could hold her own.
Because nothing is more unappealing to a gamer, regardless or 'sexiness' than an escort mission..
And with the gaming, that is leaving out all of the Japanese made games where it runs into the same thing as anime where you are spoiled for choice. I am a huge fan of Valkyria Chronicles, and most of the women in that have the looks and personality to give any anime character a run for their money.
And do I even need to bring up the likes of Tifa?
I don't see how Italian politics are related to this subject /s
Congratulations sir, you managed to get an IRL laugh out of me. Enjoy your upvotes.
Ellie herself was generic, what made her standout was her personality in the first game, that was butchered in everything after the original plot. They're trying to hide how bad they f'd up with her character by doing the whole 'It's because she hasn't got big tits or ass that you're attacking her
Meanwhile I hear of how people who play Nikke came for that but stayed for the plot. If gatcha games can easily surpass the western devs, they're just using 'sexism' to hide the fact they have no talent.
I agree that tlou is shit, but defending gacha shit means you are retarded. All gacha simps deserve to hang.
It's like pointing out Jerry Springer is better than any of the shit the left makes.
One is not a masterpiece compared to sewage.
Who?
Remember when Dead or Alive was hot?
Was never into fighting games so only familiar to it by arcades, youtube and R34, in that order.
“We are never going back to the sexist early 2000s era of gaming”
We will and the first one that does will make bank
The most overrated game of the last 10 years for sure. I mean it's not even fun. If that game hadn't been made by overrated Naughty Dog and a PS exclusive during the height of PS fanboyism no one would even remember it today.
I'm not sure what I'd say the most iconic female character of the last 10 years is, particularly if we are sticking with the context of video games. I would think it has to be something that people outside of video gaming would even recognize, but it's sure not this random chick. You could have told me that was Lara Croft from the most recent episodes of that franchise and I wouldn't have noticed enough to argue.
The first one wasn't bad. Its certainly overrated but you could have a good time with it, as shown by the fact that its multiplayer was decently popular for a time.
And I think 2B is probably the most iconic of the decade. Simply because through the power of her ass she turned Yoko Taro, a niche crazy man whose last 3 games were only played by me and 11 other guys, and turned him into a household name and a highly sought after talent across numerous titles.
Laughs in Chozo
Had to google to figure out who I was even looking at, lol.
'Most iconic'? She looks like an Unreal marketplace stock asset. Thoroughly interchangable design from a game I never bothered to play because it just looked boring.
Hell, even modern Lara Croft is a better example of a strong female character than Ellie.
Most iconic female character in video games...
Hmm... It's actually a tricky question. I'll probably say "Princess Peach". Pokemon's various PokeGirls would also be a good selection.
But that might not be fair, since while they have had games in the last decade, not many originate in the last decade.
I should've picked Mercy. ♫ I should've picked any kind of support. ♪ Seriously, there's ballads about Mercy. If you go up to a random gaming convention, any place where people care about games, even an anime convention which would have an Eastern bias, and say "name the most famous female character in video games in the last 10 years", you're probably going to get Mercy or Tracer, both due to the same song/meme.
Though now that I think about it, you might also get Jinx, since that well-received anime came out recently...
Well that's because Mercy is the centerpiece of the "healslut" movement. Which coincided perfectly with both a massive increase in female gamers (because it was popular and they could get attention through titty streams and latching onto guy streamers) and trannies. Both of whom love to play healers, especially one who the game sucks off that hard as needing to be thanked for existing.
Overwatch never should have had a support class. Playing a healer in an FPS is dumb as shit unless it's the Assault class from the battlefield franchise where you just got to play the game too.
Still more iconic than Alice from The Last Of Us, even if the reason is... a bit depraved.
Tell me more of this 'sexist early 2000s era of gaming'.
The only reason ugly is still selling is because they bundle it into remakes and sell a basterdized nostalgia. Even then its not guarantee, see saints row reboot.
Its why gays and blacks coop and piggyback on established ip as well.
It's a gimmick. They know this shit doesn't sell, design a sexy female character and someone's got a damn job for you - the strong "independent" woman thing is tacked on and will always BE tacked on because an independent woman is not strong at all, least they can do is be appealing.
95% of people on the street wouldn't know her name if you showed them a pic of her.
Most are probably more familiar with that pouty fivehead who plays as her in the HBO show.
Not sure who they're talking about but if it's Ellie from TLoU she is literally not a character. Her only purpose is to give Joel someone to care about at the end of the world. That's why killing Joel and making Ellie the MC was such a colossal fail. Got rid of the only interesting person in the story and replaced him with a plot device. Idiots.
In any case all iconic female characters are traditionally beautiful in some way.
To stay (somewhat) in the current times with one that isn't some girl boss: Melina or Ranni, pick your waifu. Both cool characters, both play and important role and are not girl boss level or shortie assassin Ellie level here. What about Elizabeth from bioshock? Useful companion with cool powers but she basically needs you and isn't OP on her own.
You can find tons of characters that don't need to be girl bosses and be iconic, some way ahead of Ellie in terms of cultural impact.
Not sure why Jessie from Control never gets talked about
I had no idea who that was until someone wrote her name. I'd say Wraith is more iconic, she's been on cans of Monster energy and is in a game (Apex Legends) with 500k+ active players at any given moment. There is no way TLoU has the reach of a free to play game with like 30+ million players.
who?
No. Just no.
Also, probably Mercy would be the best fit if you're going to force this idea that female characters can be likable.
What game? My friend wants to know..
Fate Grand Order I presume